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ОглавлениеHe owed her an explanation.
He needed to justify—to her as well as to himself—what he had done.
She reached for his hand, then seemed to think better of it. “Tell me, Gray.”
Her tone was kind. Soft. Caring. Infinitely patient.
She tugged her sleeves down to cover her hands.
“Go inside,” he said just as gently. “You’re cold.”
He had heard that when people got frostbite, the thawing hurt more than the actual freezing. All the more reason to stay frozen where he was. If it hurt this bad now, what might his heart feel like if he let the warmth back in?
“I’d rather stay out here with you.”
He pulled off his jacket and wrapped it around her shoulders. He resisted the temptation to leave his arms around her, but it was as if that brief contact had pried open a long-shut door to something inside him that he felt shouldn’t be examined.
Because if he did, he’d start questioning whether he’d done the right thing four years ago.
